This sophisticated blue
jay feather print takes the shirt wardrobe staple to a new, beautiful level.
At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue
jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — a cicada shell, one...
«We all found hiking sticks, and put blue
jay feathers on them,» Tyszka says.
The Chumash people who were the original inhabitants of the northern Channel Islands may have eaten the local scrub jay, or used its feathers for decoration, since they are known to have made feather bands including
jay feathers on the Californian mainland.
Not exact matches
Examples: Hawaiian honeycreepers infested with
feather lice, birds in Puerto Rico afflicted by Philornis flies and the endangered Florida scrub
jay parasitized by fleas.
The genus name, Aphelocoma, comes from the Latinized Ancient Greek apheles -(from ἀφελής --RRB- «simple» + Latin coma (from Greek kome κόμη) «hair», in reference to the lack of striped or banded
feathers in this genus, compared to other
jays.